David Fincher cuts 60 pages from Tarantino's Cliff Booth script
Director David Fincher removed 60 pages from Quentin Tarantino's 230-page original script for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, starring Brad Pitt.
David Fincher cut 60 pages from Quentin Tarantino's script for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood sequel stars Brad Pitt.
The first draft was 230 pages long and read as two films. Fincher trimmed it to make a two-hour-20-minute movie.
That's slightly shorter than Once Upon a Time at two hours and 41 minutes. He told Empire magazine he focused on how characters collided in the back alleys of Hollywood in 1977.
He cared less about plot. Tarantino has described the film as having the flavour of an Elmore Leonard crime paperback.
The movie gets a two-week exclusive Imax run starting November 25, then moves to Netflix on December 23.
- 230 pages
- Original script length
- 60 pages
- Pages cut by Fincher
- Two hours and 20 minutes
- Fincher's final runtime
- November 25
- IMAX release date
Why it mattersFincher's edits suggest a significant rework of Tarantino's vision, which matters to fans curious about how directors interpret a screenwriter's original intent.
AustraliaAustralian viewers can see the final cut on Netflix from December 23, the same date as the global streaming release.
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